Doing What They Have to Do

Updated April 20, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

T he prize for dumbest comment of the week goes to the Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of America's Christian Broadcasting Network and the influential Christian Coalition, a grassroots political group. In a Monday interview on CNN, Mr. Robertson appeared to defend the most monstrous aspect of China's one-child policy.

Asked by CNN commentator Wolf Blitzer how U.S. conservatives can support closer ties with China in face of Beijing's policy of forced abortion, Mr. Robertson replied with a defense of the defenseless. He told Mr....